Content Vienna

Content Vienna

And the winners are ...

Out of more than 80 submissions, the expert jury awarded five projects with a total of 50,000 euros. The women's bonus of 1,000 euros each was awarded to all prize-winning projects of Content Vienna 2018.

Brain Hero - a neuro-feedback game for children in the autistic spectrum

Brain Hero is a mobile neuro-feedback game that is being developed to help autistic children increase their ability to concentrate and relax. The child wears a simple EEG and plays the game on the tablet at home. The player controls a superhero (Brain Hero) based on their brain activity and collects points. The points are used to obtain gadgets for the Brain Hero, i.e. a reward system to motivate the children. Brain Hero uses methods that have already achieved positive effects for autistic children as proven by clinical studies.

Submitters:

AgITo Consulting Services GmbH

Brain Hero is being developed by AgITo Consulting Services GmbH, founded by Christof Goetz. Illustrator and game designer Pia Decker is responsible for the design and game design. Game designer and developer Nicole Weiner, who specialises in biomedical games, also plays a leading role.

EscapeFake

EscapeFake

EscapeFake is an interactive augmented reality escape room game designed to provide young people with the tools to protect themselves against populism. It is being developed by Polycular and Urban INC together with schoolchildren in Austria, Germany and Romania. The story and the puzzles take place in a populist, dystopic science fiction scenario. The AR software developed by Polycular and Urban INC transforms any room or book into an escape room and turns learning into an adventure. Digital natives are playfully introduced to journalistic tools with which they can verify facts in order to expose fake news.

Submitters:

Polycular OG / Urban INC

The project is led by Irina Paraschivoiu (Urban INC) and Robert Praxmarer (Polycular OG) and implemented in Vienna at Impact Hub and Modul University. Birgit Schönauer and Julian Watzinger are responsible for app development in the project team.

Polycular is a start-up founded by Robert Praxmarer that combines creativity and technological innovation to create spaces for experience and education in the real and virtual world. The Urban INC, founded by Irina Paraschivoiu in Bucharest, stands for Urban Insights Center and aims to provide solutions to the problems of changing cities.

Infra-Ordinary Palm Trees

"Infra-Ordinary Palm Trees" is a multimedia performance about the construction of memory. Using virtual reality and 360° shots, a "displaced homeland novel" that establishes connections between geographically separated but economically linked places will be created. On the one hand, there is a nursing home for European Alzheimer patients in Thailand; on the other hand, there are the memories of the patients of their homeland. The project combines a virtual reality scenario with the physical presence of actors: it creates a state of being in-between, between virtual and real place. The project is to be distributed as an interactive performance primarily through international festivals.

Marlies Pöschl is an artist and filmmaker living in Vienna and Paris. She studied Fine Arts (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Art and Digital Media) as well as Art and Communication and German Studies in Vienna and Utrecht, NL

Inside Lieutenant Gustl

"Inside Lieutenant Gustl" is a virtual theatre experience by Poesie Media Network e.U. based on Arthur Schnitzler's novella "Lieutenant Gustl" in a production by Sebastian Brauneis. The prototype will now be further developed to serve as a platform for further virtual theatre productions.

"Inside Lieutenant Gustl" is a prototype not only on an artistic and creative level, but especially in the distribution and marketing area. Poesie Media Network wants to establish virtual reality as a new form of expression in the narrative field of tension between theatre, literature and film. Literature and stage plays will be produced as immersive, multimedia experiences, using the possibilities of cinematic postproduction and combining them with the power of theatrical staging on the basis of Austrian cultural assets, which will be newly staged and carried out into the world in a novel way.

Submitters:

Poesie Media Network e.U.

"Inside Lieutenant Gustl" is a co-production of Poesie Media Network with Sebastian Brauneis. Stefanie Schmitt, as dramaturge and academic director together with Sebastian Brauneis and Sascha Mann, is an essential part of the project management team for the production of "Inside Lieutenant Gustl" as well as for the overarching enterprise "das virtuelle theater", with which further plays are to be realised.

Value App

The Value App is a GPS based, geolocalised smartphone game about sustainability and planting trees, which will be released in 2018 for Android and iOS. Value is the ideal companion for a more conscious lifestyle, where shopping and experiencing nature in the city become a magical experience. With the interactive GPS-based map you can playfully discover sustainable online shops and nature-conscious consumer alternatives as well as green spaces and parks in your own environment. As the game progresses, real trees are planted in cooperation with the Plant-For-The-Planet foundation to combat the global CO2 crisis.

Founded by Stefanie Baier and Alexander Kapfhammer in Vienna in 2017, AncientGame GmbH develops games with a focus on sustainability in order to communicate this complex topic in a playful and user-friendly way.